Kenneth L. Pike Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.”

“When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.”

“We assume, to begin with, that the individual is at least as complex in his internal structure as the language is which he speaks - otherwise, how could he speak a language which is complex?”

“I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.”

“If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.”

“Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.”

“Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.”

“The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.”

“There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.”

“Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ.”